Curtain rod



P. F. DOVER CURTAIN ROD Dec. 17, 1940 Filed May 20, 1958 INVENTOR PIERRE F. 001/51? ATTORNEYS Patented Dec. 17, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CURTAIN ROD Pierre F. Dover, Rye, N. Y., assignor to H. L. Judd Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application May 20, 1938, Serial No 209,003

2 Claims.

shaped in cross-section with spaced rear flanges forming an open back. Heretofore it not infrequently happened that curtains were injured by catching on burred edges or abrupt shoulders at the rod end upon which the curtain was being threaded or applied. My invention is of particu- 15 lar importance when employed in such a rod since it not only facilitates and shortens the operation of mounting the curtain on the rod, but it obviates the aforesaid danger of injury.

In the drawing- 20 Fig. 1 is a front elevation of portions of two telescopic rod sections of the so-called flat rod type, the outer section being partly broken away;

Fig. 2 is a perspective View on the rear side of the inner rod section shown in Fig. 1;

25 Fig. 3 is a rear view of the end of a rod showing a modification;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3. Curtain rods of the so-called flat rod type are C-shaped in cross-section and much difficulty 30 is encountered in assembling curtains thereon since the rear flanges, particularly at the threading end of the rod, are commonly rough or burred and tend to catch the threads of the curtain, to their injury. This also frequently renders the 35 operation tedious and slow. To overcome this, I purpose to provide what I will term a guard and guide piece or threading nose at the telescopic end of the rod for facilitating the threading of the rod through curtain hems. This nose, pre- 40 senting a smooth surface and rounded end, will greatly assist the speed of assembly of the telescopic rod sections'and also eliminate the danger of injury to the curtain or curtains. In the drawing I have shown two forms of such a threading 4 nose.

In Figs. 1 and 2, i represents the outer rod section and 2 the inner rod section which telescopes with the section I. When a curtain is threaded y it is common practice and most expedient to sepa- 50 rate the two rod sections and slide the curtains onto the end of one of said sections, after which the rod sections are assembled and the curtains are adjusted to the proper position on both sections, the same sliding freely from one section 55 onto the other. In these figures I have shown the rear flanges of the inner rod section at its telescopic end as tapered inwardly toward each other so as to form a contracted end or tip of less diameter than the internal diameter of the outer rod, as indicated in the drawing. 3 is the nose at 5 the tip end of the rod section, the same being preferably an integral portion of the metal of the face of the rod, which portion is bent back so as to properly guard the rough edges of the said flanges and prevent them from catching the threads of a curtain being slipped onto the rod. In this case, the end being tapered it may be easily entered in the curtain pocket or hem and the nose 3 being rounded may be quickly and safely passed through the rod pocket in the curtain as the latter is being drawn onto said rod. Furthermore,

by thus forming the telescopic end of the inside rod section 2 the same is easily insertable into the outside section I after the curtain has been slid into place on the former.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown a slight modification in which instead of contracting the end of the inner rod by rolling in the rear flanges, said side flanges are cut off on a bevel as indicated at 5-5 so as to effect a slight taper. The tip end of this rod section is provided with a nose 6 integral with the face of the rod and turned back to form a smooth-faced incline which may be pushed easily through the curtain rod pocket, since the edges of said nose are positioned sufiiciently close to the beveled edges of the flanges to guide the fabric of the curtain freely over the same as the curtain is drawn into place. When it is desired to remove the curtain from the rod, the rod and curtain are detached from the wall and the curtain or curtains may be easily slid off the end of the rod remote from the guard nose, thereby avoiding any danger of catching the curtain on the rearedge of said nose should the same project to any degree above the rear surface of the rod section on which the nose is formed.

I claim:

1. A sheet metal flat curtain rod comprising an inner and an outer rod section, each section having a substantially flat front face and spaced off inwardly directed reinforcing flanges at the rear face, the inner section being telescopically sli-dable within the outer section, the flanges at the telescopic end of the inner section being cut away from the substantially flat front face adjacent, the front end so as to leave an unreinforced bendable tip at the end of the front face, said tip being bent back to form a rounded nose to provide a threading end.

2. In a sheet metal flat curtain rod, two telescopic rod sections each having a substantially rounded nose, the front ends of said flanges being flat front face with inturned spaced off reinforcbent inwardly so as to cause the sides of the rod ing rear flanges, the telescopic end of the inner to Converge toward the end, the ends of said rod section having spaced apart generally longiflanges and the rounded nose coacting with each tudinally extending slits in the front face leavother to form a tapered and rounded threading 5 ing an unreinforced tongue at the end between end.

said slits, the unreinforced tongue of metal be- PIERRE F. DOVER. tween said slits being bent back to form a smooth 

